[MissAmericanPie]

I don't see the scandal in having both groups pursue their theories. The same ignorance, that slaughtered any point of view rather than the earth is flat, is at work here with these embarassing witch hunts.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"I don't see the scandal in having both groups pursue their theories."

Nobody is stopping ID proponents from studying ID.

"The same ignorance, that slaughtered any point of view rather than the earth is flat, is at work here with these embarassing witch hunts."

The Earth has been known to be round since the time of the ancient Greeks. Educated people in Europe knew this from an early time. When did this *slaughtering of a point of view* happen in regard to the flatness of the Earth?

[antiRepublicrat]

I don't see the scandal in having both groups pursue their theories.

That would be fine if both were scientific theories, not just theories in the vernacular, as ID is. ID needs to be pushed in the classroom as much as evolution needs to be preached in the Sunday sermon.

[VadeRetro]

I don't see the scandal in having both groups pursue their theories.

Oh, indeed, pursue away! Behe likes to compare ID to the Big Bang. The Big Bang had testable implications. That is, it predicted something previously unsuspected and the something eventually turned up.

That's all ID needs to do. Predict something unsuspected and then go find it. Actually discover something instead of trying to undiscover things that we do know.

That would be most welcome. That's also the last thing ID-ers are going to do. Just for one thing, ID doesn't predict ANYTHING.